Statistics questions: what does a p>2.0 mean?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

[bicentennial_baby]

1. What's the context?

Although I would be inclined to think it's a p value greater than 2, but since probability assumes a value btwn 0-1... :shrug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. question is this

draw the expression below using the normal distribution. find the proportion that is associated with those sections of the graph

p > 1.00

p < -2.00

i am assuming that i can get this from the z table here by plugging in the p value in the above/below box depending on the question

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Yes, that should work

I haven't used a Z dist. for a while, but yeah, that makes sense.

[SPKrazy]

3. probability?

My experience (and it's been a wee while since I took stats) is that p in that context may refer to the probability of something being greater than chance. :shrug:

[SwissTony]

5. In statistics, "p" is almost exclusively reserved

for probabilities or proportions, the first of which lies between 0 and 1 and the second either lies between 0 and 1 or between 0 and 100 if you prefer to think in terms of percentages. In the latter case, you would use the "%" symbol.

I suspect your question is "what proportion of the standard normal distribution lies above 2?" in which case you could use the calculator you linked to.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. thank much swiss tony